Research Reports

Research Reports contain the results of the scientific survey work carried out during the calendar year.  This includes work on shellfish stock assessments, fisheries impact studies, environmental monitoring work, Sabellaria spinulosa characterisation, work in the Suffolk rivers etc.

• 2024 Horseshoe Point Cockle Fishery
• 2023 Wash Cockle Growth Study
• Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds MCS : ARM – 2023 Research Interim Report
• 2023 Horseshoe Point Cockle Fishery
• 2022 Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds MCZ Imagery Analysis
• 2020 Southern North Sea Crab and Lobster Fisheries Improvement Project: Proposal
• 2020 Southern North Sea Crab and Lobster Fisheries Improvement Project: Needs Assessment
• 2021 European Lobster Stock Assessment
• 2019 Brown Crab Stock Assessment
• Whelk Technical Summary Report – Review of whelk permit conditions
• EIFCA North Norfolk Coast Habitats Mapping Survey Report 2018-2019
• 2020 EIFCA WNNC SAC Intertidal activity disturbance monitoring summary report
• 2019 EIFCA WNNC SAC Intertidal activity disturbance monitoring summary report
• 2019 WFO Cockle Stock Assessment
• 2018 WFO Mussel Stock Assessment
• Crab & Lobster Stock Assessment 2018
• Marine Science Plan 2019-2020
• The Gat Cockle Stock Assessment – Aug 2019
• Friskney Cockle Stock Assessment – Aug 2019
• Hydraulic Suction Dredging Impact Assessment 2019
• EHO Biotoxin Sampling Report 2018
• Horseshoe Point Cockle Survey 2018
• Slipper Limpet Survey Report 2018
• Review of the WFO 1992 Cockle & Mussel Survey Methodologies – Sept 2018
• Research Plan 2018-2019
• Crab & Lobster Stock Assessment 2017
• EHO bio toxin sampling report 2017
• The Wash Habitat Mapping Report 2016-2017
• 2017 WFO Mussel Stock Assessment
• The Gat Sand Non-Native Species Report 2017
• 2017 WFO Cockle Stock Assessment
• SWEEP summary 2017
• Horseshoe Point Eelgrass Assessment Survey Report 2017
• Horseshoe Point Eelgrass Assessment Survey Report 2016
• Horseshoe Point Eelgrass Assessment Survey Report 2015
• Horseshoe Point Cockle Survey 2017
• WFO Mussel Stock Assessment 2016
• Crab & Lobster Stock Assessment 2016
• Wash Fishery Order Cockle Surveys 2016
• Horseshoe Point Cockle Survey 2016
• Haisborough Hammond & Winterton cSAC Sabellaria survey October 2016
• Crab & Lobster Stock Assessment 2015
• Horseshoe Point Cockle Survey 2015
• Wash Fishery Order Mussel Surveys 2015
• Wash Fishery Order Cockle Surveys 2015
• Bacteriological and Bio-toxin sampling 2015
• Shark ByWatch Habitat Mapping Report 2015
• Habitat Mapping Surveys – The Wash – 2013, 2014 & 2015
• Research & Environment Plan 2015/2016
• Research and Environment Plan 2014-2015
• WFO Cockle Surveys 2014
• WFO Mussel Surveys 2014
• Titchwell Marsh Mussel survey 2014
• Sweep 2014
• Mussel Regeneration Study 2014
• Crab & Lobster stock assessment 2014
• Finfish research report 2014 (includes sub-reports on the composition of commercial finfish catch, potential management of bass stocks and assessments of the Anglian Coast Net Limitation Order and Unlicensed Herring fishing in Eastern IFCA waters)
• Horseshoe Point Cockle Survey 2014
• Eastern IFCA Research Report 2013
• Eastern IFCA Research Report 2012
• Eastern IFCA Research Report 2011
• ESFJC (EIFCA) Research Report 2010

For further information on our research programme, please get in contact with us. We are always happy to answer questions about our work.